endeared

adj

1. (obsolete)Having become treasured or precious; beloved.

   “O, how should we prize the friendship of that most endeared Redeemer, who laid down his life not for his friends, but for his enemies, and of enemies to make them friends.”

   “As being One in the contemplation of whom the soul finds all its demands of perfection answered, and in whom it reposes satisfied with the vision; whose favour it seeks after and enjoys as the chief good; to serve whom it regards its highest honour; to advance the interests of whose kingdom engages its warmest patriotism; in whose family it finds its most endeared kindred; and whose house is its longed-for home.”

   “I am happy to know that the Prayer Book has become very endeared to my gallant comrades in H. M. Forces, both on sea and on land, who are doing their duty so well for King and Country.”

2. Characterized by affection; loving.

   “While convalescent he wrote a long letter to an old fellow-student, between whom and himself there appears to have subsisted a very endeared friendship.”

   “But these noisy, dirty Subways are faster, more frequent, and more efficient than the London Underground, and I'm very endeared to their ear-shattering clatters and their functional stations thick with the smell of fresh-cooked doughnuts.”

   “Well, I felt very endeared to little Sammie and her adventurous curiosity”

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of endear